Importing camera videos to iPhotoy

My photo camera takes short videos. I have been able to download the videos to iPhoto with no problem. However, when I copy them on a thumb drive to move them to another computer, they are just photos and the length is always "0." Any idea of what I am doing wrong?

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I have a Sony HDR-CX280 and the last version of iMovie, 10.0.1.
When i Import video's I enter the SD card in the MAc and choose "import".
I create a new event and import part of the video to that event. No problem here.
Then I import a second part of the video to a new event. This goes extremely fast, but these parts of the video remain on the camera even if the show on iMovie after import. When I remove the SD card the images disappear while mentioning: "missing camera".
When the card is put back in te MAC the images re-appear.
On the videostream there is a small videocamera icon which mentions tha the video is still on the camera and that I need to select "import media again" from the archive menu. However this option is not available.
ANyone know what to do about this?
I alread made a copy of the video file to my hard drive and try importing from there but I have the same issue.
I think it is a bug and I also think the new version of iMovie is a beta version. However I would really like to find a solutoon, so thanks for any help I can get.

Hi,
I have tried this and came to something strange:
- created a new library with the name imovie library 2
- imported the video to this new library -> succesfull - video stored locally
- drag and drop to the original library: a copy of the event is created in the original library HOWEVER this copy ahs the same issue, it refers to media on the camera and I can not see the video if I remove the SD card.
What can I do?

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IMovie will only import short videos from my camera.

Hello,
I recently bought a Sony CyberShot DSC-HX50 camera. I filled one 8 GB memory card and have half-filled a 16 GB card (I was overseas and couldn't download photos to my MacBook Pro, which was at home). I have the most recent version of iMovie but this is the first time I've used it. My MacBook has a new solid-state hard drive and plenty of memory.
iMovie does not "see" ANY of the videos on the 8 GB card; the videos are all either about one, three, or seven minutes long. On the 16 GB card, it only "sees" the videos that are under one minute. I have imported those videos to iMovie, but I can't get it to "see" the other, longer ones. I've tried unplugging and replugging the camera cable, removing and replacing the memory card, turning the camera on and off, and shutting off and restarting iMovie. I've gone through all of the options in the toolbar and haven't found the answer, and the "help" option isn't helpful at all. The videos play fine on the camera screen.
All iMovie does when I try to "import from camera" from the 8 GB card is show the little icons that look like a piece of old-fashioned camera film; no indication at all that there are any videos on the camera card. When I try to import from the 16 GB card, iMovie just shows the three short videos and no indication that the longer ones exist.
Interestingly, iPhoto can "see" the same movies iMovie can. I understand iPhoto is not set up to download longer movies (although it has downloaded movies from my iPod that are several minutes long). But I have no idea why iMovie isn't cooperating.
Help, please! Thank you!

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I want to import camera-generated videos from Real Player into iTunes.
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